[CentOS-devel] Gauging interest in Discourse

Mon Oct 31 19:11:45 UTC 2022
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 3:08 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 3:05 PM Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 2:57 PM Shaun McCance <shaunm at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > You might be aware that there is a CentOS category on the Fedora
> > > Discourse instance:
> > >
> > > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/centos/71
> > >
> > > There have been some discussions about having a dedicated Discourse
> > > instance for CentOS. Discourse has a lot of advantages, such as better
> > > moderation and integration with our accounts system. But I understand
> > > that many people are comfortable with their existing workflows.
> > >
> > > There's no point in running Discourse if it doesn't get enough buy-in.
> > > So I'm asking for input on using Discourse for various things:
> >
> > Why can't we do all of the below in the Fedora Discourse instance with
> > dedicated categories?
> >
>
> You can only have one level of hierarchy in Discourse. If we were going to do
> significant stuff in Discourse, we're better off on our own instance.

I don't get it.  Please bear with me, because I am definitely not
conversant in Discourse.

We have centos/ today.  There is nothing that says we can't have
centos-SIG/ as a category, right?

josh